Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Critical Care medicine

Our work is a registry study of all non-surgical neurological cases who were admitted to critical care department of Cairo university hospitals from January 2010 to august 2014. This study was conducted on only 150 patients from 394 patients who were admitted to ICU with neurological insult and full filed criteria of our study. All patients{u2019} data was reviewed through retrieved patient{u2019}s files and electronic database with special stress on: patient demographics, co-morbid diseases, hemodynamics on admission, investigations on admission, and laboratory data on admission, managements, complications and outcome. Any patient with the following criteria was excluded from the study (Metabolic encephalopathy, encephalitis, meningitis, Brain tumor hemorrhagic stroke (surgical type), hypoxic encephalopathy (post CPR. For perfect statistical result; Patients were divided into two groups: Group I: stroke patients (122 patient 81%) Group II: which include 28 patients (18.7%) (2 patients subarachnoid Hge, 13 patients status epileptics, 9 myasthenia gravis ,4 Gillian bare)

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